Song:In The Year 2525
Album:Top Hits of the 60s: Coolest Hits
Sometimes you have to be in the right place at the right time to have a hit record. And if you don't follow it up properly, you wind being a one hit wonder. That's the story of the 1969 number one smash In The Year 2525 by Zager & Evans. Denny Zager was born Feb. 18, 1943 in Wymore, NE. Rick Evans was born Jan. 20, 1943 in Lincoln, NE. They met while attending Nebraska Weslayan University and had a group called The Eccentrics. Evans wrote In The Year 2525 in 1964 and they recorded it for Truth Records in 1967. It went nowhere until a DJ in Odessa, TX started playing it around the time of the moon landing in 1969. RCA picked it up for national distribution and it topped the Billboard Hot 100. Zager & Evans recorded two albums for RCA but they flopped and In The Year 2525 was their only chart hit. They are a true one hit wonder and you can get the song on this various artists comp from Collectables. It says on Wikipedia that Rick Evans went on to a solo career but I see no evidence of that. Denny Zager became a music teacher and manufactures his own brand of custom guitars. Here's Zager & Evans performing In The Year 2525 on Music Scene 1969.
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